Nordic Model Of Welfare State

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland are often referred as Nordic or Scandinavian countries. It is not only the geography uniting those countries. They share a common political and economic views. All Scandinavian countries are promoting high living standards, equal opportunities for all citizens, universal social services, a high level of trust and national solidarity. Those countries became well known in the whole word for their successful welfare state policy. For primary understanding the definition of the main concept of the welfare state and Nordic model of welfare state are necessary.
According to the Britannica online encyclopedia the welfare state is a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection
The process of class formation and individualization of agriculture and first cross-class compromises. The second part is highlighting the major principles characterizing the Nordic model. How Scandinavia deals with new threats associated with processes of globalization and international integrations of labor and trade markets is discussed in the third part. Fourth part focuses on long period reformations of social services and how these reforms improved the stability of the welfare system. The last fifth part examine statistical background of the major social
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark democratic parties took over the political power. Together with liberal and agrarian parties, social democrats provided a line of social reforms which were of great importance for the Scandinavian identity and the welfare project in general. Norway and Sweden were most active in social security reforms. The most important changes were made in the pension system. Moreover, first Scandinavian countries provided a compulsory unemployment insurance system. Sweden was an example of progress and effective involvement of the government in the economy. The country found a way to compromise between social government, royal family and capitalistic system. This compromise is often called in political science the ‘third way’. In the same time in Denmark the new administrative reform was provided. Finland introduced universal pension plan. However, the war with Soviet Union in 1934 stopped the implementation of further reforms in Finland (Kautto 2010,